Let's hope this doesn't do for MSU what the Wexner did for Ohio State, which is convince them never to hire another signature architect. Whomever is tapped to be the executive is going to have to be spectacular.

to clarify, the museum will be built in troy, mi, a suburb of detroit, and not on the main east lansing campus.

it's a major boon for detroit area design. i'm very excited.

i'm sorry. i read that wrong. it is in east lansing.

The real question is of course to what degree better facilities will help football recruiting.

this could have been another of her smooth/sleek projects - the same forms are under there somewhere. but it looks like this is an attempt to introduce some skin treatments and textures a la h&dm.

this could go really well or really badly depending how that skin is detailed: either it will sing and give new dimension to hadid's work, or it will look like surface-applied patterns or - worse yet - those aluminum louvered awnings on your great grandmother's house.

first cincinnati and now east lansing? what's the appeal of the dowdy midwest for ms. hadid? and why does the design resemble a grain silo after a tornado hits?

yeah, those renderings don't portray a solid $26mil project... is that $18mil in design fees, and did the arch program have to pony up some of its studs?

they are only the conceptual design renderings. from the standpoint of pure sculpture, zaha is virtually infallible these days. while people like gehry and mayne try to make sculpture, they usually end up just making buildings. it's a great project, and i think the fact the budget is relatively small by starchitect standards will only make the finished design better.

janosh, i hear pryor added msu to his list after this announcement;)

puddles - it's easier to get projects like that built in the midwest because there is less opposition to cutting-edge architecture.